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Star rating for Death in Venice and other stories
Language:
English
Description:
Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and is based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911. As the story opens, he is strolling...
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Star rating for The magician
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
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Star rating for Death in Venice, and seven other stories
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Language:
English
Description:
Translates twentieth-century Nobel Prize-winning German writer Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice," as well seven of his short stories: "Tonio Kroger," "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Felix Krull." These short stories, originally published in the 1930s in various German collections, present Mann's belief that "a story must tell itself."--Adapted from back...
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Star rating for Death in Venice
Publisher:
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom.
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Star rating for Death in Venice and other tales
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
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Description:
A new translation of the author's short fiction. The title story is on a man's infatuation with a beautiful boy while on holiday in Venice, in The Blood of the Walsungs a woman cheats on her fiance by having an affair with her twin brother, and in The Will for Happiness a sick man waits five years to marry a woman, dying the day after the wedding.
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Star rating for Thomas Mann
Language:
English
Description:
"Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann's best stories--including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer--"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings...
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Star rating for Stories of three decades
Language:
English
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Star rating for Reflections of a nonpolitical man
Language:
English
Description:
A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain , now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in  Death in Venice  had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least...
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Star rating for Thomas Mann
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Language:
English
Description:
This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann. Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who...
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Star rating for Thomas Mann
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
1995
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The author of several of the major classics of modern European fiction, including Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, and The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Thomas Mann was also a staunch opponent of Nazism (which eventually drove him into exile) and a towering presence in German and European intellectual life for more than fifty years. Celebrated biographer Donald Prater...
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Star rating for Death in Venice
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Publisher:
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date:
[1994]
Language:
English
Description:
With this new entry in Twayne's Masterwork Studies Series, the preeminent Mann scholar T.J. Reed provides students from secondary to graduate levels with a concise but comprehensive guide to the art and the issues of Death in Venice.
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Star rating for Five stories
Publisher:
Franklin Library
Pub. Date:
1977
Language:
English
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Star rating for Thomas Mann; a collection of critical essays
Publisher:
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date:
[1964]
Language:
English
Description:
Mann's complex, often ambiguous works are studies in chronological order by an international group of critics.
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Star rating for Death in Venice
Publisher:
Dynamic
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
Description:
"Apollonian appreciation of beauty leads to a sensous response and to the Dionysiac abyss in Britten's last opera. ... 'Aschenbach is destroyed physically by the plague, spiritually by an ifatuation for the boy Tadizio that is ultimately a betrayal of his lifelong devotion to an ordered beauty, free from the excesses of unbridled passion'"--Container.
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Star rating for The Borzoi reader
Publisher:
Garden City Publishing co., inc
Pub. Date:
1938
Language:
English

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